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Sunday, 9 February 2014

Why are young Trots rebelling against our Leftist Establishment?

That photo above was taken in Wigan. Amazing. But
what's even more amazing is that it was taken in 2013 - this year! What
the hell's going on here? They may as well be demonstrating against
workhouses of British slavery.

I think that many these young “rebels”, overwhelmingly
middle-class students, think they are rebelling by being Communists or
Trotskyists. Some other young rebels, usually not students and not middle
class, have rebelled in better, newer, or at least in more genuinely rebellious
ways.

It’s strange that white middle-class
students still rebel in this way. Both Communism and Trotskyism (plus other
Leftist offshoots) have been very prominent in Europe and American for over 60
years. (Trotskyism more in the last 30 to 40 years.) Leftists have taken over many
parts of many universities, parts of the BBC, parts of the churches, many parts
of local councils, etc. The Left also rules many of Antonio Gramsci's "hegemonic
institutions” from the law to the charities to “rights groups”.

The even more bizarre thing is that many –
but not all – of the parents of these young Trotskyists and, less so, Communists,
were probably Commies/Trots at university as well! How can you rebel against
parents who believe largely the same things as you? (Though the parents won’t dress in
the same way or listen to the same music as their kids.) In fact, their parents
are probably still Trots of some kind - though they won't march and shout as
much as the rich kids in the photo anymore. They don't need to. A
large part of the their Establishment
is already Leftist!

Many Labour Party bigwigs were former
Communists at university. But why be a member of a group like the SWP-UAF, etc.
when you can become the Government, or just the Opposition, and do far more
damage – or “radical change” - to the UK? Groups like the SWP-UAF, etc. are
probably seen as playground revolutionaries by those
Trots/Communists/socialists at the top; whether Gareth Peirce the Trotskyist super-lawyer
or all those "ex-communists" in the Labour Party. In fact, many upper-middle-class
Trotskyist professionals, such as lawyers and "rights activists", may think that all the noise and bother
of Street Trotskyists like the SWP-UAF actually sets radicalisation and even
revolution back somewhat. After all, Gramsci explicitly stated, over 70 years
ago, that a revolution in society - and even in the state! - can come about
without violence or without blood on the streets (although this seemed to upset
him).

The old 19th-century or Bolshevik notion of “storming
the barricades”
is dead. Such a thing only appeals to those Leftist activists (of whom
there
are many) who really prefer the violence-bit to the actual
revolution/radicalisation-bit. (That is, many Leftists like violence but
for some reason or other they feel the need to tart that fact up with
"a bit of politics".)

The Labour Party, on the whole, isn't a Marxist or a communist party. However, there are very many cross-currents and interactions between the Labour Party and the Trotskyist/communist Left, mainly on the periphery but also deeper within.

As for the Fabian Society, it isn't a “revolutionary" (as in violent revolution) organisation but it is still, nonetheless, uniquely dangerous and elitist. Its approach to "radically changing society" is very similar to that taken by the followers of the Italian communist, Antonio Gramsci.